Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Krugman writes that progressive voices need to reclaim the theme of freedom as it becomes increasingly obvious how deprivation and precarity deprive…
2018
NDP Survey Asks Supporters To Rate Jagmeet Singh In His First Year As Party Leader
I joined the federal New Democrats in November, 1981 and after 37 years of continuous membership, I had my membership in the Federal NDP cancelled in the spring of 2018…
NDP Survey Asks Supporters To Rate Jagmeet Singh In His First Year As Party Leader
I joined the federal New Democrats in November, 1981 and after 37 years of continuous membership, I had my membership in the Federal NDP cancelled in the spring of 2018…
NDP Survey Asks Supporters To Rate Jagmeet Singh In His First Year As Party Leader
I joined the federal New Democrats in November, 1981 and after 37 years of continuous membership, I had my membership in the Federal NDP cancelled in the spring of 2018…
It’s In the Voters’ Hands
Eugene Robinson writes this morning that Americans have known all along who Donald Trump is: We’ve all known about Trump from the beginning. We’ve known that he was entirely unfit…
Halifax Anarchist Bookfair Workshop Schedule
10:15-11:45am Room 1 The Rojava Revolution – presented by Rojava Montreal Feminism, equality, ecology and direct democracy: a discussion of the Rojava revolution from an anarchist perspective. In 2016 a…
The Increasing Desperation Of The Con Clown Andrew Scheer
Lordy, what are we going to do with that old Con artist Andrew Scheer?He's still claiming he's more popular than Justin Trudeau, even as his nose grows longer and longer.The…
This photo is going to cost Mr. Trudeau plenty
It ranks up there with Stanfield’s fumbled football and Dukakis’ backwards helmet (all of which I write about here). This will cost seats in Alberta and beyond. Huge mistake. Justin…
Gobsmacked by sex education.
There are a lot of people in Ontario angry and frustrated by the idiocy of our politicians trying to satisfy the wrong people with how we are teaching children about…
The Launch of Documentary Futurism
On September 13th, 2018, the world will receive 15 speculative gifts. On that forward-looking day Cinema Politica launches our newest project in Montreal, Documentary Futurism. Way back in 2016 we…
The Dutch Wife by St. Albert-raised Ellen Keith leads Audreys Books Edmonton fiction bestseller list this week
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Sept. 2, 2018. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
The Launch of Documentary Futurism
On September 13th, 2018, the world will receive 15 speculative gifts. On that forward-looking day Cinema Politica launches our newest project in Montreal, Documentary Futurism. Way back in 2016 we…
Learning from the past, fighting in the present
Photo by No One Is Illegal Ottawa “How do you avoid the feeling that you should be working ALL THE TIME given the urgency of the state of the world?”…
Lessons from the 70th birthday of the National Health Service
Photo from Public Domain This summer marks the 70th anniversary of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). When it was established in 1948, the NHS was the world’s first…
Milking Trump’s Trade Dispute With Canada
Photo from Public Domain The other 49 states have a massive trade deficit with Michigan in cars because of the terrible trade deals that our stupid trade negotiators signed with…
NDP veterans in Sask. challenge Jagmeet Singh over ban on Weir candidacy!!
By Joan Bryden — Sep 6 2018 OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh won't allow scorned MP Erin Weir to run as a New Democrat in the next election — a decision…
NDP veterans in Sask. challenge Jagmeet Singh over ban on Weir candidacy!!
By Joan Bryden — Sep 6 2018 OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh won't allow scorned MP Erin Weir to run as a New Democrat in the next election — a decision…
NDP veterans in Sask. challenge Jagmeet Singh over ban on Weir candidacy!!
By Joan Bryden — Sep 6 2018 OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh won’t allow scorned MP Erin Weir to run as a New Democrat in the next election — a decision…
Trump’s ‘Reichstag’ Moment
The writer of the mysterious letter about Trump’s control of the White House? It’s a fraud designed to shatter the image of the media. Watch what happens next.